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<taxonomicName authority="Spencer, 1895 a" authorityName="Spencer" authorityYear="1895" box="[158,712,653,680]" class="Mammalia" family="Dasyuridae" genus="Phascogale" kingdom="Animalia" order="Dasyuromorphia" pageId="33" pageNumber="310" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="macdonnellensis">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[158,712,653,680]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[158,513,653,680]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">Phascogale macdonnellensis</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation author="Spencer, W" box="[521,712,653,680]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310" pagination="222 - 224" refId="ref144537" refString="Spencer, W. B. 1895 a. Preliminary notice of two new species of marsupials from central Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria (new series) 7: 222 - 224." type="journal article" year="1895">Spencer, 1895a</bibRefCitation>
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</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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</heading>
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph blockId="33.[151,549,700,722]" box="[151,549,700,722]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">
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<emphasis box="[151,319,700,722]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">Proc. R. Soc. Vic.</emphasis>
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7: 222. (
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<date box="[404,538,700,722]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310" value="1895-01">January 1895</date>
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).
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<paragraph blockId="33.[121,603,743,768]" box="[121,603,743,768]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[121,295,743,768]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">Common name</emphasis>
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. Fat-tailed
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Tate" authorityYear="1947" box="[417,598,743,767]" class="Mammalia" family="Dasyuridae" genus="Pseudantechinus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Dasyuromorphia" pageId="33" pageNumber="310" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Pseudantechinus</taxonomicName>
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.
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<subSubSection pageId="33" pageNumber="310" type="description">
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<paragraph blockId="33.[119,749,789,842]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[121,278,789,813]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">Current name</emphasis>
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.
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<taxonomicName authority="(Spencer, 1895 a)" baseAuthorityName="Spencer" baseAuthorityYear="1895" class="Mammalia" family="Dasyuridae" genus="Pseudantechinus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Dasyuromorphia" pageId="33" pageNumber="310" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="macdonnellensis">
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<emphasis box="[289,645,789,813]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">Pseudantechinus macdonnellensis</emphasis>
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(
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<bibRefCitation author="Spencer, W" pageId="33" pageNumber="310" pagination="222 - 224" refId="ref144537" refString="Spencer, W. B. 1895 a. Preliminary notice of two new species of marsupials from central Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria (new series) 7: 222 - 224." type="journal article" year="1895">Spencer, 1895a</bibRefCitation>
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)
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</taxonomicName>
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, following Jackson & Groves (2015).
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="33" pageNumber="310" type="materials_examined">
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<paragraph blockId="33.[121,748,863,975]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[121,133,863,887]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">?</emphasis>
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<materialsCitation collectingDate="1895-09-08" country="Australia" location="Baldwin Spencer" pageId="33" pageNumber="310" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Northern Territory" typeStatus="syntype">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[133,235,863,887]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">
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<typeStatus box="[133,235,863,887]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">Syntype</typeStatus>
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</emphasis>
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. M.1004,?male, adult, skull, skin mount, registered
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<date box="[236,439,893,917]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310" value="1895-09-08">
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<collectingDate box="[236,439,893,917]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310" value="1895-09-08">8 September 1895</collectingDate>
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</date>
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, from “Central
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<collectingCountry box="[614,714,893,917]" name="Australia" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">Australia</collectingCountry>
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” =
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<collectingRegion box="[121,328,922,946]" country="Australia" name="Northern Territory" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">Northern Territory</collectingRegion>
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, presented by
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<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03DD87C8FF98731418ACFD66FAA994F4:8EAB6005FF98731419C2FC71FD64948E" box="[496,689,922,946]" country="Australia" name="Baldwin Spencer" pageId="33" pageNumber="310" stateProvince="Northern Territory">Baldwin Spencer</location>
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, as a skin mount
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</materialsCitation>
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.
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="33" pageNumber="310" type="description">
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<paragraph blockId="33.[120,751,997,1285]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[121,235,997,1021]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">Condition</emphasis>
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. Cranium is missing right zygomatic arch, right auditory capsule, occipital area and section of right lateral braincase wall and floor; hole in left frontal; both dentaries complete. Skin mount: faded, tail tip almost detached, left ear torn and tip missing, missing toes on the right manus, a fracture on the tail, sparse fur on the ventral surface and the right side. Considered to be adult, based on dentition and sutures. Sex not determined (skin mount has no signs of scrotum or pouch but, as an adult, it could be a male with scrotum removed).
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[121,271,1306,1330]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">Type locality</emphasis>
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. Alice Springs district,
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<collectingRegion box="[541,745,1306,1330]" country="Australia" name="Northern Territory" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">Northern Territory</collectingRegion>
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,
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<collectingCountry box="[121,222,1335,1359]" name="Australia" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">Australia</collectingCountry>
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.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="33" pageNumber="310" type="materials_examined">
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<paragraph blockId="33.[119,750,1381,1551]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[121,237,1381,1405]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">Topotypes</emphasis>
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. (2).
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[301,382,1381,1405]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">M.1145</emphasis>
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, adult?female, skin mount, skull
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<emphasis box="[123,189,1411,1434]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">in situ</emphasis>
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;
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[206,290,1410,1434]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">M.1146</emphasis>
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, adult male, skull, skin mount; both from Alice Springs, donated by Baldwin Spencer, registered
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<date pageId="33" pageNumber="310" value="1896-10-10">10 October 1896</date>
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. Collector and collection date not given. There is no associated correspondence listed in the M Register for either specimen.
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="33" pageNumber="310" type="discussion">
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<paragraph blockId="33.[121,749,1573,2007]" lastBlockId="33.[792,1424,151,968]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[121,245,1573,1597]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">Comments</emphasis>
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. Correspondence from Spencer dated
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<date pageId="33" pageNumber="310" value="1895-09-05">5 Sept 1895</date>
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(AM Archives AMS9, Letters Received, S:65/1895) clearly indicates that
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<specimenCount box="[359,459,1631,1655]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310" type="male">one male</specimenCount>
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Spencer" baseAuthorityYear="1895" box="[467,645,1631,1655]" class="Mammalia" family="Dasyuridae" genus="Pseudantechinus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Dasyuromorphia" pageId="33" pageNumber="310" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="macdonnellensis">
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<emphasis box="[467,645,1631,1655]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">macdonnellensis</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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was sent to the AM; it was registered as M.1004 but without further data. There was no indication that it was a type although Spencer used the term “type” in other correspondence.
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<bibRefCitation author="Spencer, W" box="[121,298,1749,1773]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310" pagination="222 - 224" refId="ref144537" refString="Spencer, W. B. 1895 a. Preliminary notice of two new species of marsupials from central Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria (new series) 7: 222 - 224." type="journal article" year="1895">Spencer (1895a)</bibRefCitation>
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did not indicate the number of specimens examined but more than one is implied by the statement that “the first specimen was found by Mounted Trooper South …”. As noted by
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<bibRefCitation author="Calaby, J" box="[374,532,1837,1861]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310" pagination="188 - 208" refId="ref126031" refString="Calaby, J. H. 1996. Baldwin Spencer's post-Horn Expedition collectors in central Australia. In Exploring Central Australia: Society, the Environment and the 1894 Horn Expedition, ed. S. R. Morton and D. J. Mulvaney, pp. 188 - 208. Chipping Norton, NSW: Surrey Beatty." type="book chapter" year="1996">Calaby (1996)</bibRefCitation>
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,
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<bibRefCitation author="Spencer, W" box="[546,728,1837,1861]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310" pagination="222 - 223" refId="ref144575" refString="Spencer, W. B. 1895 b. The Horn Expedition to Central Australia. Nature 51 (1314): 222 - 223. https: // doi. org / 10.1038 / 051222 b 0" type="journal article" year="1895">Spencer (1895b)</bibRefCitation>
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, published in January, states that he had
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<specimenCount box="[572,748,1866,1890]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310" type="generic">three specimens</specimenCount>
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for his description, a male and
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<specimenCount box="[458,591,1895,1919]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310" type="female">two females</specimenCount>
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.
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<bibRefCitation author="Dixon, J" box="[603,749,1895,1920]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310" pagination="105 - 114" refId="ref127394" refString="Dixon, J. M. 1970. Catalogue of mammal types (Class Mammalia) in the National Museum of Victoria. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 31: 105 - 114." type="journal article" year="1970">Dixon (1970)</bibRefCitation>
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listed C7804 (a female) as a
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<typeStatus box="[447,533,1925,1949]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">syntype</typeStatus>
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, noting an attached label marked “type”, apparently Spencer’s original tag. She incorrectly cites Trooper South as the collector—he obtained a male specimen. Dixon states that the only other specimen listed in the MV register is a male; presumably she had reason to doubt the type status of this specimen.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph blockId="33.[792,1424,151,968]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">
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We are unable to determine whether either M.1004 or the MV male cited by
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<bibRefCitation author="Dixon, J" box="[1045,1193,269,293]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310" pagination="105 - 114" refId="ref127394" refString="Dixon, J. M. 1970. Catalogue of mammal types (Class Mammalia) in the National Museum of Victoria. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 31: 105 - 114." type="journal article" year="1970">Dixon (1970)</bibRefCitation>
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is the
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<typeStatus box="[1270,1353,269,293]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">syntype</typeStatus>
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male. While it is possible that M.1004 (assuming that it is male) is the missing male
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<typeStatus box="[1022,1109,328,352]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">syntype</typeStatus>
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, it might be one of a series of specimens obtained after Spencer prepared the initial description. In his report on the Horn Expedition,
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<bibRefCitation author="Spencer, W" pageId="33" pageNumber="310" pagination="1 - 4" refId="ref144613" refString="Spencer, W. B. 1896 a. Mammalia. In Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia, Part 2. Zoology, ed. B. Spencer, pp. 1 - 52, pls 1 - 4. Melbourne: Melville, Mullen and Slade." type="book chapter" year="1896">Spencer (1896a)</bibRefCitation>
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indicated that he had acquired
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<specimenCount box="[1236,1385,415,440]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310" type="generic">13 specimens</specimenCount>
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by that time and M.1004 could have been one of these.
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<bibRefCitation author="Calaby, J" pageId="33" pageNumber="310" pagination="188 - 208" refId="ref126031" refString="Calaby, J. H. 1996. Baldwin Spencer's post-Horn Expedition collectors in central Australia. In Exploring Central Australia: Society, the Environment and the 1894 Horn Expedition, ed. S. R. Morton and D. J. Mulvaney, pp. 188 - 208. Chipping Norton, NSW: Surrey Beatty." type="book chapter" year="1996">Calaby (1996)</bibRefCitation>
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provided insights into specimens sent to Spencer by collectors after the Horn Expedition. In a letter to Spencer dated
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<date box="[858,995,533,557]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310" value="1895-07-29">29 July 1895</date>
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, F. J. Gillen, one of Spencer’s collectors, indicates that he was about to ship seven or
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<specimenCount box="[1251,1421,562,586]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310" type="generic">eight specimens</specimenCount>
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of this species to Spencer. The AM specimen could have been one of these, given that Spencer sent it to the AM in
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<date box="[795,966,650,674]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310" value="1895-09">September 1895</date>
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and the fact that other shipments to Spencer were prior to
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<date box="[936,1109,679,703]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310" value="1895-11">November 1895</date>
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(
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<bibRefCitation author="Calaby, J" box="[1123,1270,679,703]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310" pagination="188 - 208" refId="ref126031" refString="Calaby, J. H. 1996. Baldwin Spencer's post-Horn Expedition collectors in central Australia. In Exploring Central Australia: Society, the Environment and the 1894 Horn Expedition, ed. S. R. Morton and D. J. Mulvaney, pp. 188 - 208. Chipping Norton, NSW: Surrey Beatty." type="book chapter" year="1996">Calaby, 1996</bibRefCitation>
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).
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph blockId="33.[792,1424,151,968]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">
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<collectorName box="[824,930,709,733]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">Mahoney</collectorName>
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&
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<collectorName box="[975,1028,709,733]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">Ride</collectorName>
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(1988b) cited
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<collectionCode box="[1210,1253,709,732]" country="0" name="University of Montana Museum" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">MV</collectionCode>
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<specimenCode box="[1265,1340,709,733]" collectionCode="MV" country="0" name="University of Montana Museum" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">C7804</specimenCode>
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as the
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<typeStatus box="[794,890,738,762]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">holotype</typeStatus>
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, presumably because the ambiguity of Spencer’s original account could allow an interpretation that it was based on
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<specimenCount box="[895,1045,797,821]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310" type="generic">one specimen</specimenCount>
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. We do not recognize the inference of a
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<typeStatus box="[843,936,826,850]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">holotype</typeStatus>
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by
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<collectorName box="[979,1080,826,850]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">Mahoney</collectorName>
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&
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<collectorName box="[1116,1166,826,850]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">Ride</collectorName>
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(1988b) as constituting
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<typeStatus box="[795,893,855,879]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">lectotype</typeStatus>
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designation because, prior to their work, there was no agreement that the species had been based on a single specimen. To the contrary,
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<bibRefCitation author="Dixon, J" box="[1090,1236,914,938]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310" pagination="105 - 114" refId="ref127394" refString="Dixon, J. M. 1970. Catalogue of mammal types (Class Mammalia) in the National Museum of Victoria. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 31: 105 - 114." type="journal article" year="1970">Dixon (1970)</bibRefCitation>
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had assumed the existence of a
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<typeStatus box="[949,1032,944,968]" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">syntype</typeStatus>
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series (see Article 74.6, the
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<emphasis box="[1332,1388,943,967]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="310">Code</emphasis>
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).
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</paragraph>
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